A Kingston cardiologist and former president of the Canadian Medical Association will be sounding the alarm on Friday at a major meeting of stroke experts over the link between marijuana and heart attacks and stroke.

“I’m not here to demonize cannabis. We don’t need to go back to reefer madness. But we can’t say it does not harm,” said Dr. Chris Simpson, who was president of the CMA in 2014 and 2015 and made the public health implications and possible medicinal uses of marijuana one of the focal points of his term.

“If we have several million people smoking marijuana every day, we want to know what the effects are,” said Simpson, who will be addressing researchers, health professionals and policy-makers at the Canadian Stroke Congress.

Square Inc. has become one of the first U.S. payments platforms doing business with CBD providers, just as the industry is booming.

The company this week started allowing U.S. businesses to sell cannabidiol products on its platform while keeping track of payment and inventory management. CBD derived from hemp was legalized last year, while the intoxicating THC compound remains illegal at the federal level.

“We saw this as an opportunity to make our tools available to sellers” in the industry, Square said in a statement.

It’s been almost one year since cannabis became legal in Canada. In light of the upcoming anniversary, a new study looked at the ways that cannabis has affected the workplace.

Findings from this study show that by and large legalization has had a much smaller impact on things than many Canadians previously thought.

Key Findings

The new findings come from a survey conducted by market research company Ipsos, in conjunction with workplace resource company ADP Canada.

Wall Street’s love of cannabis appears to be going up in smoke as vaping-related ailments and missed revenue projections are prompting short sellers to raise their bets against the industry, fund managers and analysts said on Wednesday.

Short interest in cannabis stocks, which reflects bets that prices will fall, has risen 55% for the year to date, handing short-focused investors more than $2 billion in profits over the period, according to data released by research firm S3 Partners on Monday.

Canopy Growth Corp. is acquiring a majority stake in BioSteel Sports Nutrition Inc., as the pot giant aims to quench the thirst of prospective consumers with a line of cannabis-infused sports drinks.

The deal, which sees Canopy acquiring a 72 per cent stake in the Toronto-based sports drink maker, represents the company's bet that aside from being a major cannabis producer, it can also be a big player in the US$50-billion global sports nutrition market. Financial terms of the deal were not immediately disclosed.

When you compare cannabis legalization in Canada to how some American states are going about it, you’ll realize that the quality and price of Canadian cannabis is nowhere near the same level. People often say “look at what Colorado and Washington are doing”, but Canada took an entirely different path.

Here’s why Canada’s legalization of cannabis was doomed to be a failure.

A business website, canadianbusiness.com, came out with their list of Canada’s Top 50 New Growth Companies for 2019. The companies on the list represent the most promising companies Canada has to offer.

From cannabis-infused sparkling water that contains only five calories to pot beer that doesn’t taste disgusting (no seriously, the taste has been compared to dish soap and even urine), these Canadian companies are thinking outside of the box when it comes to drinkable weed.

Sweet Reason: Hemp CBD-infused sparkling water

There’s no reason why obsessions can’t be healthy. If pitched to the right audience, obsessions can lead to a sweet million-dollar deal—just ask Hilary McCain.

Big-name brands, such as Nike and Louis Vutton, are constantly counterfeited, but none have spurned a crisis quite like counterfeit vape cartridges. 

"Best" is a relative term. The best option between breaking your leg, your arm, or your nose still isn't a very good choice. It's not quite that bad when it comes to finding the best marijuana stocks of September, but the scenario isn't nearly as good as it's been in the past.